Framework · 2006–2018 · Web Boom

jQuery

DOM peace treaty for a fractured browser world. Mission accomplished — then frameworks ate its job.

Why jQuery faded

jQuery fixed IE-era pain so thoroughly that browsers and frameworks absorbed its ideas. It faded because the problem space shrank, not because it failed. Legacy intranet pages will keep loading it until those companies die.

dom browser legacy

Case studies

The three-year frontend migration that shipped parity — Multi-year rewrite; feature freeze periods; hiring for frameworks users never asked about

Patterns

Framework churn

2000–2009

Web Boom

Part of the Web Boom era (2000–2009).

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Compare with

vs Ajax SPAs (early)vs React vs Bootstrap vs J2EE / EE frameworks

Architecture · 2005–now

Ajax SPAs (early)

Mutated

Partial page updates without full reloads. Became the mental model for every modern front-end framework.

Framework · 2013–now

React

Stuck

Components and unidirectional data. Won the front-end by being good enough and having a gravitational ecosystem.

Framework · 2011–now

Bootstrap